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11q13 is a susceptibility locus for hormone receptor positive breast cancer

scientific article

19p13.1 is a triple-negative-specific breast cancer susceptibility locus

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

2q36.3 is associated with prognosis for oestrogen receptor-negative breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy

scientific article

9q31.2-rs865686 as a susceptibility locus for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 02 August 2012

A common variant at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus is associated with estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer

scientific article published on 30 October 2011

A large-scale assessment of two-way SNP interactions in breast cancer susceptibility using 46,450 cases and 42,461 controls from the breast cancer association consortium

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A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

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A network analysis to identify mediators of germline-driven differences in breast cancer prognosis

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

A new RFLP with StuI and probe cX55.7 (DXS105) and its usefulness in carrier analysis of fragile X syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

A point mutation in the putative TATA box, detected in nondiseased individuals and patients with hereditary breast cancer, decreases promoter activity of the 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 gene 2 (EDH17B2) in vitro

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

A recurrent mutation in PALB2 in Finnish cancer families.

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ATM mutations in Finnish breast cancer patients

scientific article published in March 2002

Analysis of 11q21-24 loss of heterozygosity candidate target genes in breast cancer: indications of TSLC1 promoter hypermethylation

scientific article (publication date: August 2002)

Analysis of large deletions in BRCA1, BRCA2 and PALB2 genes in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer families

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Application of fine-needle aspiration to the demonstration of ERBB2 and MYC expression by in situ hybridization in breast carcinoma

scientific article published on June 1994

Assessment of targeted and non-targeted responses in cells deficient in ATM function following exposure to low and high dose X-rays

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Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Association of breast cancer risk with genetic variants showing differential allelic expression: Identification of a novel breast cancer susceptibility locus at 4q21.

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Association of common ATM polymorphism with bilateral breast cancer.

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Association of genetic susceptibility variants for type 2 diabetes with breast cancer risk in women of European ancestry

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Associations of breast cancer risk factors with tumor subtypes: a pooled analysis from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium studies

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Associations of common variants at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1) with breast cancer risk and heterogeneity by tumor subtype: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 18 August 2011

Associations of obesity and circulating insulin and glucose with breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

article by Xiang Shu et al published 1 October 2018 in International Journal of Epidemiology

BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

BRCA2 Polymorphic Stop Codon K3326X and the Risk of Breast, Prostate, and Ovarian Cancers

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Body mass index and breast cancer survival: a Mendelian randomization analysis

scientific article published in December 2017

Breast cancer risk variants at 6q25 display different phenotype associations and regulate ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170.

scientific article

Breast cancer-associated Abraxas mutation disrupts nuclear localization and DNA damage response functions

scientific article published on February 2012

Breast-Cancer Risk in Families With Mutations in PALB2

Breast-cancer risk in families with mutations in PALB2

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Case-control analysis of truncating mutations in DNA damage response genes connects TEX15 and FANCD2 with hereditary breast cancer susceptibility

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Characterization and expression of the human WNT4; lack of associated germline mutations in high--to moderate--risk breast and ovarian cancer

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Chromosome 7 long arm deletion in myeloid disorders: a narrow breakpoint region in 7q22 defined by molecular mapping

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Common breast cancer susceptibility loci are associated with triple-negative breast cancer

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

Common germline polymorphisms associated with breast cancer-specific survival

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Common non-synonymous SNPs associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

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Comparison of 6q25 breast cancer hits from Asian and European Genome Wide Association Studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC)

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Confirmation of 5p12 as a susceptibility locus for progesterone-receptor-positive, lower grade breast cancer

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Correction: Comparison of 6q25 Breast Cancer Hits from Asian and European Genome Wide Association Studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC)

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Erratum: Genome-wide scanning for linkage in Finnish breast cancer families

scholarly article published in European Journal of Human Genetics

European multicenter study on LOH of APOC3 at 11q23 in 766 breast cancer patients: relation to clinical variables. Breast Cancer Somatic Genetics Consortium

scientific article published on May 1999

Evaluation of the need for routine clinical testing of PALB2 c.1592delT mutation in BRCA negative Northern Finnish breast cancer families

scientific article

Evaluation of the role of Finnish ataxia-telangiectasia mutations in hereditary predisposition to breast cancer

scientific article published on 13 December 2006

Evaluation of variation in the phosphoinositide-3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha oncogene and breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Evidence of founder mutations in Finnish BRCA1 and BRCA2 families

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Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation

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Evidence that the 5p12 Variant rs10941679 Confers Susceptibility to Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer through FGF10 and MRPS30 Regulation

scientific article published on 03 September 2016

Exclusion of large deletions and other rearrangements in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer families

scientific article published in September 2001

FANCM c.5101C>T mutation associates with breast cancer survival and treatment outcome

scientific article published on 20 August 2016

FANCM mutation c.5791C>T is a risk factor for triple-negative breast cancer in the Finnish population

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

FGF receptor genes and breast cancer susceptibility: results from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on February 2014

Familial breast cancer screening reveals an alteration in the RAP80 UIM domain that impairs DNA damage response function

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

Fine scale mapping of the 17q22 breast cancer locus using dense SNPs, genotyped within the Collaborative Oncological Gene-Environment Study (COGs).

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

Fine-Mapping of the 1p11.2 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus

scientific article

Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 178 high confidence target genes

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Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Fine-scale mapping of 8q24 locus identifies multiple independent risk variants for breast cancer

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Fine-scale mapping of the 4q24 locus identifies two independent loci associated with breast cancer risk

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Fine-scale mapping of the 5q11.2 breast cancer locus reveals at least three independent risk variants regulating MAP3K1.

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Fine-scale mapping of the FGFR2 breast cancer risk locus: putative functional variants differentially bind FOXA1 and E2F1.

scientific article

Finnish Fanconi anemia mutations and hereditary predisposition to breast and prostate cancer

Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element

scientific article published in July 2021

Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Further evidence for the contribution of the RAD51C gene in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility

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Genetic predisposition to ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Genetic predisposition to in situ and invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast

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Genetic variation at CYP3A is associated with age at menarche and breast cancer risk: a case-control study

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Genetic variation in mitotic regulatory pathway genes is associated with breast tumor grade

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Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

scientific article (publication date: August 2016)

Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types

scientific article published in September 2016

Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

scientific article published on 22 January 2012

Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

scientific article

Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer

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Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

scientific article published in April 2013

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Genome-wide scanning for linkage in Finnish breast cancer families

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Genome-wide search for breast cancer linkage in large Icelandic non-BRCA1/2 families

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Genomic analyses for age at menarche identify 389 independent signals and indicate BMI-independent effects of puberty timing on cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Germline TP53 alterations in Finnish breast cancer families are rare and occur at conserved mutation-prone sites

scientific article published on January 2001

Germline alterations in the 53BP1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families

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Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 5 October 2021

Haplotypes of the I157T CHEK2 germline mutation in ethnically diverse populations.

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Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization

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Heterozygous mutations in PALB2 cause DNA replication and damage response defects

scientific article published on January 2013

Human familial and sporadic breast cancer: analysis of the coding regions of the 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 gene (EDH17B2) using a single-strand conformation polymorphism assay

scientific article published on March 1994

Identification and characterization of novel associations in the CASP8/ALS2CR12 region on chromosome 2 with breast cancer risk

scientific article

Identification of a BRCA2-specific modifier locus at 6p24 related to breast cancer risk

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus

scientific article

Identification of novel genetic markers of breast cancer survival

scientific article published on 18 April 2015

Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Improved carrier testing for multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1, using new microsatellite-type DNA markers

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Inactivation of Palb2 gene leads to mesoderm differentiation defect and early embryonic lethality in mice

scientific journal article

Increasing oxidative damage and loss of mismatch repair enzymes during breast carcinogenesis

scientific article published on 22 September 2006

Inherited variants in the inner centromere protein (INCENP) gene of the chromosomal passenger complex contribute to the susceptibility of ER-negative breast cancer

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Intrachromosomal rearrangements fusing L-myc and rlf in small-cell lung cancer

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KEAP1 Genetic Polymorphisms Associate with Breast Cancer Risk and Survival Outcomes

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Large-Scale Genomic Analyses Link Reproductive Aging to Hypothalamic Signaling, Breast Cancer Susceptibility, and BRCA1-Mediated DNA Repair

scientific article published in December 2015

Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

scientific article published in November 2015

Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

scientific article

Linkage disequilibrium detected between dystrophia myotonica and APOC2 locus in the Finnish population

scientific article published in October 1990

Long-term observational follow-up study of breast cancer diagnosed in women ≤40 years old.

scientific article published on 31 May 2010

Loss of heterozygosity at 11q23.1 and survival in breast cancer: Results of a large European study

Loss of heterozygosity at chromosomes 3, 6, 8, 11, 16, and 17 in ovarian cancer: correlation to clinicopathological variables

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Machine learning identifies interacting genetic variants contributing to breast cancer risk: A case study in Finnish cases and controls

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk

scientific article published in October 2021

MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

scientific article

Multiple founder effects and geographical clustering of BRCA1 and BRCA2 families in Finland

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Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

scientific article published on April 2013

Mutation analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in Turkish cancer families: a novel mutation BRCA2 3414del4 found in male breast cancer

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Mutation analysis of aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein (AIP) gene in colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers

scientific article published in January 2007

Mutation analysis of the AATF gene in breast cancer families

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Mutation analysis of the ATR gene in breast and ovarian cancer families

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Mutation analysis of the CHK2 gene in families with hereditary breast cancer

scientific article published on July 2001

Mutation screening of the BARD1 gene: evidence for involvement of the Cys557Ser allele in hereditary susceptibility to breast cancer

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Mutation screening of the MERIT40 gene encoding a novel BRCA1 and RAP80 interacting protein in breast cancer families

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Mutation screening of the RNF8, UBC13 and MMS2 genes in Northern Finnish breast cancer families

scientific article

No clinical utility of KRAS variant rs61764370 for ovarian or breast cancer.

scientific article published in May 2015

No evidence of involvement of germline BACH1 mutations in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer families

scientific article (publication date: February 2003)

No evidence that protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with breast cancer risk: implications for gene panel testing

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Nordic collaborative study of the BARD1 Cys557Ser allele in 3956 patients with cancer: enrichment in familial BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation-negative breast cancer but not in other malignancies

scientific article published on 06 July 2006

PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

scientific article published in December 2016

PHIP - a novel candidate breast cancer susceptibility locus on 6q14.1.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

PREDICT Plus: development and validation of a prognostic model for early breast cancer that includes HER2.

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Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

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Pathology of ovarian cancers in BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers

scientific article published on April 2004

Patient survival and tumor characteristics associated with CHEK2:p.I157T - findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

scientific article published on 03 October 2016

Penetrance analysis of the PALB2 c.1592delT founder mutation

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Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

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Polymorphisms in a Putative Enhancer at the 10q21.2 Breast Cancer Risk Locus Regulate NRBF2 Expression

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Prediction of breast cancer risk based on profiling with common genetic variants

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Publisher Correction: Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

RAD50 and NBS1 are breast cancer susceptibility genes associated with genomic instability

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RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

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Rare copy number variants observed in hereditary breast cancer cases disrupt genes in estrogen signaling and TP53 tumor suppression network

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Rare missense mutations in RECQL and POLG associate with inherited predisposition to breast cancer

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Recurrent CYP2C19 deletion allele is associated with triple-negative breast cancer

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Refined histopathological predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status: a large-scale analysis of breast cancer characteristics from the BCAC, CIMBA, and ENIGMA consortia

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Reproductive profiles and risk of breast cancer subtypes: a multi-center case-only study.

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

SNP-SNP interaction analysis of NF-κB signaling pathway on breast cancer survival

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Screening for RAD51 and BRCA2 BRC repeat mutations in breast and ovarian cancer families

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Screening for large genomic rearrangements of the BRIP1 and CHK1 genes in Finnish breast cancer families.

scientific article published in December 2010

Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Somatic mutation analysis of MYH11 in breast and prostate cancer

scientific article

Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Identifies a Recurrent Mutation in MCPH1 Associating with Hereditary Breast Cancer Susceptibility

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

The BRCA2 c.68-7T > A variant is not pathogenic: A model for clinical calibration of spliceogenicity

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

The UGT1A6_19_GG genotype is a breast cancer risk factor

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

The clinical value of somatic TP53 gene mutations in 1,794 patients with breast cancer

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The gene for 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase maps to human chromosome 17, bands q12-q21, and shows an RFLP with ScaI.

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The role of genetic breast cancer susceptibility variants as prognostic factors

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Unstable DNA may be responsible for the incomplete penetrance of the myotonic dystrophy phenotype

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Using mouse models to investigate the biological and physiological consequences of defects in the Fanconi anaemia/breast cancer DNA repair signalling pathway

scientific article published on May 9, 2011

rs2735383, located at a microRNA binding site in the 3'UTR of NBS1, is not associated with breast cancer risk

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